Description: The project analyzes problem gambling and social media usage from social psychological perspective. The project collected the YouGamble 2017 Survey In March-April 2017. Respondents were Finnish young people aged 15 to 25 (N=1200). Additional YouGamble Social Media survey was collected in April-June 2017 from Finnish social media sites. These identical surveys included measures on problem gambling, addictive behavior, social media usage, subjective well-being and social relationships. The survey also included social psychological survey experiment using a vignette design. Our hypothesis were pre-registered to Open Science Framework in March 2017 and our aim is to analyze the effect of online group processes and content characteristics on young people’s reactions to gambling-related messages. The project will collect data from the US and South Korea in 2018.

Kaakinen, M., Sirola, A., & Oksanen, A. “"If You Like it, I Like It": social media identity bubbles and gambling-related online behavior”, Self and Identity Preconference at the 18th General Meeting of the European Association of Social Psychology (EASP), July 4, 2017, Granada.